Job demand over time
Total open roles, week by week.
Open roles still live at each week's close, not new postings that week.
30,450 roles were open at the close of the week, up 11 per cent on the previous week's 27,429. Weekly growth was 3,021 roles, against an average of 3,404 over the preceding weeks. Nine weeks ago the board held 3,602.
Roles by country
Top 10 countries by open roles this week.
Where the role is based, not where the employer is headquartered.
Germany led with 6,215 open roles, 21 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 5,499, France at 3,209. The top three markets accounted for 50 per cent of all roles. Ireland grew fastest, up 14 per cent to 1,465.
- 6,215 21%🇩🇪 Germany
- 5,499 19%🇬🇧 the UK
- 3,209 11%🇫🇷 France
- 1,801 6%🇳🇱 the Netherlands
- 1,706 6%🇪🇸 Spain
- 1,465 5%🇮🇪 Ireland
- 1,432 5%🇵🇱 Poland
- 1,121 4%🇮🇹 Italy
- 844 3%🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 828 3%🇸🇪 Sweden
Top roles this week
Role families by open roles, and how they moved.
Every open posting is mapped to one role family from its title and description.
Software was the largest role family at 3,740 open roles. Sales followed at 3,048. The three largest families accounted for 35 per cent of the board. Operations grew fastest, up 12 per cent to 876. Skilled trades moved least, up 1 per cent.
- 3,740 ↑ +11%Software
- 3,048 ↑ +11%Sales
- 2,863 ↑ +8%Machine learning
- 2,475 ↑ +1%Skilled trades
- 1,393 ↑ +10%Finance
- 1,369 ↑ +10%Solutions & Field
- 970 ↑ +11%Support
- 876 ↑ +12%Operations
Top technologies this week
Mentions across open postings.
Explicit mentions of a technology across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 4,849 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 3,011, 1.6 times behind. SQL rose fastest, up 14 per cent to 2,127. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 4,849 ↑ +11%Python
- 3,011 ↑ +10%AWS
- 2,382 ↑ +11%LLM / GenAI
- 2,127 ↑ +14%SQL
- 2,042 ↑ +12%CI/CD
- 2,010 ↑ +9%Kubernetes
- 1,867 ↑ +8%Distributed systems
- 1,751 ↑ +11%GCP
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
Roles that first appeared on the board against roles removed from it.
2,933 roles opened and 3,679 closed, a net loss of 746. Openings were up 5 per cent on the previous week's 2,781. Net additions fell from -1,139 to -746. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.
Salaries
Annualised EUR estimate from the 2905 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.
Annualised EUR estimates from postings that state a figure. Bars span the 25th to 75th percentile.
Quant & Trading paid most, €287k to €287k across the middle half of 12 postings. The market median was €87,780 across 2,905 postings that stated a figure, down 1 per cent on the week. Security paid least of the families shown, 194 per cent below Quant & Trading at the median.
- Quant & Trading €287k – €287k
- Engineering management €94k – €149k
- Solutions & Field €86k – €145k
- Software €79k – €143k
- Sales €64k – €153k
- Frontend €68k – €128k
- Design €70k – €114k
- Security €81k – €135k
Remote
5,352 of 30,450 open roles are remote (18%).
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
18 per cent of open roles were remote, 5,352 of 30,450. Machine learning was the most remote of the leading families, 40 per cent of 2,863 roles. Manufacturing was the least, 1 per cent.
Visa sponsorship
239 of the 579 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (41%). Most postings say nothing either way.
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
579 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 2 per cent of the board. 41 per cent of those offered it. Finance offered it most often, 81 per cent of 21 postings that said either way.
Tech demand over time
This week's top technologies, tracked since the archive began.
This week's leading technologies, tracked across every week on record.
CI/CD grew fastest over the 9 weeks on record, from 181 mentions to 2,042, up 1028 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 308 per cent. The board itself grew over the same period.
Tech × role
Open postings pairing each technology with each role family, this week.
This week's leading technologies against its leading role families. Darker cells mean more postings asking for both.
Python and Machine learning was the commonest pairing, 1,101 postings asking for both. LLM / GenAI was the most concentrated, 39 per cent of its mentions in Machine learning.
Counts are whole open postings. Percentages compare against the immediately preceding week. Salary figures are an annualised, currency-converted estimate. A "New" badge means the item was absent from last week's top set, not that the posting is new.
